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Vietnam will not include ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
on the agenda for its next parliament session, an official said on Friday,
adding to uncertainty over the future of US President Barack Obama's signature
trade deal.

Pink-haired pop star Mai Khoi, dubbed Vietnam’s Lady Gaga for her risque
outfits, has found a new way to shock: running for parliament along with a
motley crew of dissidents and activists testing the limits of the authoritarian
nation.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has urged the Ministry of Public
Security's Mobile Police High Command to ensure absolute safety for the
country's major events, including the upcoming 12th National Party Congress,
the elections of deputies to the 14th National Assembly and the People's
Councils at all levels for 2016 to 2020.

On November 24, 2015, the Vietnamese National Assembly approved a bill to
legalize sex reassignment surgery and to introduce the right to legal gender
recognition for transgender people who have undergone such surgery.

Vietnam’s economic growth prospect this year is bright, but still on an
unsustainable trend given the current development of many sectors of the
economy, according to a report of the economic committee under the law-making
National Assembly (NA).

Vietnam’s legislators emphasized the need to ensure human rights for those
under temporary detention or arrest at their meeting on Friday, the last
working day of the 35th session of the National Assembly (NA)’s Standing
Committee.

Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung sailed through a parliamentary
confidence motion on Saturday, boosting his clout within the ruling Communist
Party just over a year ahead of a shake-up of the country's top leadership.

Vietnam has had a new constitution since the beginning of this year, after a
near-unanimous vote by the National Assembly in November 2013. But it leaves
much to be desired in terms of political and economic reform.

NEW YORK – Vietnam’s National Assembly should ensure that the country’s
revised constitution fully meets international human rights standards, Human
Rights Watch said in a letter to the chairman of the National Assembly.

HANOI - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was dealt a rare public
blow on June 11, winning the full support of less than half of members of a
parliament dominated by his ruling Communist Party in the country's first-ever
confidence vote.

HANOI – Vietnam scores only 19 points on a 100 point scale in the 2012 Open
Budget Index (OBI 2012), much lower than many other nations in the region,
showing a lack of transparency in the country’s budget system.

Chairman of the Office of the National Assembly Nguyen Hanh Phuc said the NA
will allocate half a day for the first-ever vote of confidence for high-ranking
officials in the 5th NA session in May 2013.

It is not every day that a Vietnamese national assemblyman publicly
confronts a sitting prime minister and Politburo Standing Committee member live
on national TV, suggesting that the latter resign. Yet that was what transpired
last week, when lawmaker Duong Trung Quoc spoke out against Prime Minister
Nguyen Tan Dung.

HA NOI — National Assembly vice chairman Huynh Ngoc Son and a delegation of
lawmakers yesterday concluded a three-day visit to France aimed at boosting
mutual understanding with the French Parliament and strengthening the tradition
of friendship and multifaceted co-operation between the two countries.

The Justice Ministry has presented to the National Assembly’s Standing
Committee a draft law on civil status registry, under which every citizen will
be granted one single identification number to be used on all licenses. This
number will remain the same throughout a holder’s life.

She may have succeeded in building one of Vietnam’s richest families but
businesswoman Dang Thi Hoang Yen always knew that entering the murky world of
high-level politics in this authoritarian, one-party state was a gamble.